Word: fabric
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There was romance, too, on the broad, open fields of Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending...
Student demonstrations are an integral part of the political fabric of South Korea. But unlike most protests, fought under well-established rules of engagement at the gates of universities, the June 1987 demonstrations surged off the campuses, into the city streets. More important, they enlisted the support of middle-class citizens, whose forbearance with democracy delayed had been pushed to the limit under Chun...
During the 18th century, however, Enlightenment scholars began to question the whole fabric of revealed religion. In the age of Newton, they believed that the Scriptures must be subjected to the same rigorous scientific scrutiny as the laws of nature; nothing could be taken on faith. One such self- confident rationalist was Thomas Jefferson. After leaving the White House, he wrote a biography of Jesus that kept many of the teachings but discarded numerous Gospel passages that, in his judgment, could not have been authentic. The true words, he said, were "imbedded as diamonds in dunghills...
...miss the furniture show of a lifetime at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Crafts Fair this Sunday in Mt. Suanpee State Park, Route 103 B in Newbury, N.H. Featuring work by potters, weavers, silversmiths, furniture makers, fabric designers and other craftsmen from around New Hampshire, the show continues through August 14. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $5, and children under 12 get in free. Telephone...
...film set in Hamilton, Mont., where he is starring in a caper comedy called Waiting for Salazar. (Acting, Blades insists, is merely a way of subsidizing his musical career.) "There are eleven different styles of songs on this record," he says. "I wanted to present a whole fabric of different colors and sounds and put them together on a record the way I remembered radio to be when radio played all different kinds of music...